Anagaudryceras politissimum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnagaudrycerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.
11 occurrences of Anagaudryceras politissimum on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
11 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
4 formations
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The named rock units Anagaudryceras politissimum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anagaudryceras politissimum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Anagaudryceras politissimum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Pseudophyllites indra8 sites
- Desmophyllites diphylloides7 sites
- Gunnarites kalika7 sites
- Diplomoceras cylindraceum6 sites
- Eubaculites carinatus6 sites
- Gaudryceras kayei6 sites
- Kitchinites spathi6 sites
- Phyllopachyceras forbesianum6 sites
- Grossouvrites gemmatus5 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) surya5 sites
- Maorites densicostatus5 sites
- Pseudophyllites latus5 sites
- Menuites fresvillensis4 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) australis4 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) jacquoti australis3 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) neubergicus dissitus3 sites
- Eubaculites latecarinatus2 sites
- Gunnarites raggatti2 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum2 sites
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) brunnschweileri2 sites
- Agerostrea ungulatus1 site
- Anagaudryceras subtilineatum1 site
- Baculites ambatryensis1 site
- Baculites kirki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Anagaudryceras politissimum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
5 references- Maastrichtian Non-Heteromorph Ammonites from the Miria Formation, Western Australia7
- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The Santonian-Campanian ammonite genus Eulophoceras Hyatt, 19031
- Upper Maastrichtian ammonites and nannofossils and a Palaeocene nautiloid from Richards Bay, Kwa Zulu, South Africa1
- The Cretaceous decapod Crustacea of Argentina and the Antarctic Pensinsula1
- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Gaudryceratidae1
Each of the 11 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Anagaudryceras politissimum
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- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anagaudryceras politissimum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAnagaudryceras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kossmat 1895)